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Gameloft games and switching roms

I would like to buy a few of gameloft games now that they have optimize the game for the evo. But what would happen if i switch roms or by some bad luck i loose my phone and new a asurion replacemebt. Do i have to rebuy the games again.
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As long as you keep a back up of the apk you will be fine, otherwise you will have to buy it again.
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From the market? If its from the market don't worry. I have flashed roms so much in the past week and forgot to backup paid apps. Go to market after signing into Google and they say purchased. So I can download still if its not on the phone without paying again.. just saying. Not surebif that's where your getting them from.
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It sucks I got the free copy of let's golf and now I can't get it back I installed the apk but it doesn't work. I guess it thinks its pirated.
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gqstatus0685 said:
It sucks I got the free copy of let's golf and now I can't get it back I installed the apk but it doesn't work. I guess it thinks its pirated.
I backed up let's golf with titanium before switching roms and titanium reinstated it with no issues.
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martyzidek said:
From the market? If its from the market don't worry. I have flashed roms so much in the past week and forgot to backup paid apps. Go to market after signing into Google and they say purchased. So I can download still if its not on the phone without paying again.. just saying. Not surebif that's where your getting them from.
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Gameloft games are not in the market, except for asphalt. You must back up those games with an app like titanium backup, otherwise you have to buy them again from gameloft.
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Look in download folder on sdcard, the game is still there. I use root explorer to reinstall them but I think any file explorer should work.

Help restoring data

Hey thanks to all reading this. I have a problem extracting data from an old phone, sorry if this is in wrong section I'm using an s3 so came here. Situation is had s2 and dropped in water. Phone works but screen doesn't. I think it works in some spots but not enough for me to get the SD to work. When its plugged in I see the drive disappear instantly so can't get file. The file I need is a PDF I downloaded months back. It saved to my phones drive. Im not having much luck with adb and not sure I even know where to look for the PDF. I was able to view it using adobe reader. I have a nandroid but dunno where to look for his PDF. I am on a twrp recovery so kinda screw ed there and screen cast a no go. Anyone know where to look in nandroid browser for a PDF downloaded to phone mem? Any ideas are appreciated thx so much
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You could try airdroid, connect to your phone wirelessly from your pc and browse files on it, then just download from phone to pcs
Wait a minute, sorry, you said you cant see the screen very much so how you gonna be able to down load an app ... duh my bad.

Ya the screen is completely black. Sound works and some background stuff but can't see anything and not sure what works
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iIuvweed said:
Ya the screen is completely black. Sound works and some background stuff but can't see anything and not sure what works
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Does adb recognize the device? If so its just a matter of reading through adb for dummies (will try and find a link) to get the right command.
Or pm EarlyMon. I bet he knows the cmd
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I havent tried adb too much I'm not sure if its picking it up or not, I have all the latest components but might need older ones. When I do try adb it dosent detect anything so far. Not even the s3 so not ruling it out yet. I'm so desperate I'm thinking about restoring the nandroid to s3 and see what happens. The file I need is my medical license without it I'm f'd. Its a hassle to get a new one, so much so I'm going thru this headache. About to chuck this thing
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Finally got it. Nandroid browser saved my life.
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iIuvweed said:
Finally got it. Nandroid browser saved my life.
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Awesome find!
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Changing main files

Hi there. I installed cm10.1.2 on my s3 and I can't seem to get subway surfers to work. Now I looked around and the only thing I can find is that its looking for the data in the wrong folder. Now my question is can I get rid of the emulated folder and just have the sdcard0 or is emulated mandatory?
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Vodkanakas said:
Hi there. I installed cm10.1.2 on my s3 and I can't seem to get subway surfers to work. Now I looked around and the only thing I can find is that its looking for the data in the wrong folder. Now my question is can I get rid of the emulated folder and just have the sdcard0 or is emulated mandatory?
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Same issue here. Its not because its looking for data in the wrong place, if you download the game straight from the play store after flashing a ROM, the game still won't work (it doesn't have any data to look for so the game should just start up and its always worked before on different versions of android and custom ROMs). I'm not sure of the exact issue, but a recent update caused the problem. Try sending an email to the maker of the game through the play store too see what's causing the issue.
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Well talked to kilo and they said it isn't tested on custom roms. So I guess until someone finds a fix it won't work on cm10.1.2 :'( guess I'll stay stock...
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Minion Rush

I installed Minion Rush and i spent a lot of time in it and then my phone messed up so i made a back up of everything and then i restored my phone and i am wondering because i can explorer my backups would i be able to restore my save for it. cause i've been trying to like taking the folder from data/data and using my old one no luck so i'm wondering is this possible? not sure if this right thread but it's on this device.

cgibbons51 said:
I installed Minion Rush and i spent a lot of time in it and then my phone messed up so i made a back up of everything and then i restored my phone and i am wondering because i can explorer my backups would i be able to restore my save for it. cause i've been trying to like taking the folder from data/data and using my old one no luck so i'm wondering is this possible? not sure if this right thread but it's on this device.
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i use titanium and it restores my app data. ie game scores and stuff
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I only have a full back up would it be possible to restore? Its data?
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cgibbons51 said:
I only have a full back up would it be possible to restore? Its data?
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In theory yes but unless u know what ur doing it'll never happen, as its more than just moving files around, u need to know how to decompile and recompile because the data ur looking for can't just be moved around
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soupysoup said:
In theory yes but unless u know what ur doing it'll never happen, as its more than just moving files around, u need to know how to decompile and recompile because the data ur looking for can't just be moved around
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That would explain why using my old files caused the game to crash

Last I looked titanium backup will restore from cwm and twrp backups.
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Constant "Media" battery drain...

I did a search and found one or two threads with a few suggestions but all went cold after a few pages...I have followed those threads suggestions and have reformatted my internal and external SD cards along with a factory data reset with no avail. I'll attach a screenshot...thanks xda'ers for any help you can offer.
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Btw I'm currently stock rooted...thanks again guys
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Got any apps that would keep using Media service? When you force stop it does it come back again?

Yeah it does but I can't figure out which app would be the cause...been monitoring with better battery stats and doesn't list a contributor. Uninstalled music hub with titanium backup and I don't use Google music...can't seem to lock down the cause.
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You use stock browser?

You could try Avast Mobile Security. It has a feature called Network Meter that shows each apps MiB usage. Good luck!

I use Next launcher...thanks for the input guys I'll keep ya posted
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Avast was informative but only listed the same results as battery in settings...didn't specify. Thanks for the suggestions guys!
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Update...Media scanner continues to run
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Which release of stock rooted are you on?
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Media scanner running is often a function if background syncage or of playing media.

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Which release of stock rooted are you on?
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Stock rooted MC2
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Media scanner running is often a function if background syncage or of playing media.
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Yeah I've been trying to figure out if that's the case but I keep sync off and mostly just watch movies I've put on my ext sd card..maybe my sd card is the problem?
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What size is your sd card? I had this happen with a 32 gb one time. Switched to 16 and all has been fine. It also might be a corrupt file on the sd if it is the sd.
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Yeah I've got a 32 gb, have had it in this thing since I got it when the note 2 came out...haven't had any issues until recently. I did notice when I popped it out overnight then put it back in today the media scanner went nuts for a while (the pic I attached)
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patrao_n said:
What size is your sd card? I had this happen with a 32 gb one time. Switched to 16 and all has been fine. It also might be a corrupt file on the sd if it is the sd.
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this ^^^ may be your issue. a corrupt image,music,video file somewhere on your sd. a lot of ppl say to back up everything on yer sd card to a pc, and then reformat, then add back the contents. i know that stopped it for some. otherwise youll have to figure out what file is corrupted.
when i had a corrupted file, it was a picture that had about 80% of the image on it and the other 20% was just grey. (yep that was corrupted) so i deleted it..
this wonderful app also stops your 'media' process/scanner. you can disable it and enable it and it worked wonders for me in the past, but now CarbonRom has a media scanner toggle built in
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot please read description and use at your own risk.. like maybe make a nand first.
just an FYI, the service that gets very high when youre listening to lots of music is 'mediaserver' - which is not related to the 'media' process

Thanks to everyone for all of your input! You guys have been a huge help knocking this little annoyance out!!
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Yeah sounds like you're having issues with the external SD. Mediascannerservice is what scans for media on SD cards. I've had that issue before and it was a pita! Reformatted and everything was fine till I added all my files then it returned. One of the files (a movie) was no good. It got corrupted and would still play so I never thought anything of it till I tried *watching* the whole movie one day and it cut off with an unsupported message at like 40 mins through. Once I deleted that and rebooted never had the issue again.
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RayTrue04 said:
Yeah sounds like you're having issues with the external SD. Mediascannerservice is what scans for media on SD cards. I've had that issue before and it was a pita! Reformatted and everything was fine till I added all my files then it returned. One of the files (a movie) was no good. It got corrupted and would still play so I never thought anything of it till I tried washing the whole movie one day and it cut off with an unsupported message at like 40 mins through. Once I deleted that and rebooted never had the issue again.
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I'm thinking that's exactly my problem...I've reformatted it twice but still puts media scanner in overdrive. I've weeded out all the movies I'm bored with and only left a few..today it's a little better but still kept cpu awake running for ten min. Thanks for your input!
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I would like to say thanks to everyone after finding this thread and reading everyone post I did find a bad video and thats was what was causing my media wake lock thanks again everyone :thumbup: on this
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